Brad Holland Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Brad Holland quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 24 we have.
“In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.”
“Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.”
“Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.”
“In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.”
“The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.”
“The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.”
“I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.”
“Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.”
“Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.”
“New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.”
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